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- From: williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums)
- Newsgroups: alt.privacy
- Subject: Re: stopping phone woes
- Message-ID: <lgg8glINN9mq@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 22:35:01 GMT
- References: <8307@public.BTR.COM>
- Reply-To: williamt@athena.Eng.sun.com (Dances with Drums)
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- In article <8307@public.BTR.COM> grady@public.BTR.COM ( ) writes:
- >It uses a four-digit code that must be entered after
- >a voice prompt to make your phone ring.
- ---
- So a normal person can't call you since they don't know your
- 4 digit code?
-
-
- >One of the good things about it is that the out
- >of state credit card companies still have to pay
- >their nickel for calling my number. :-)
- ----
- ??? Why would they not have to otherwise?
-
-
- >It has increased my happiness in answering the phone
- >a good deal.
- ---
- Seems a telephone answering machine would accomplish a similar
- purpose -- I find few salesmen bothering to leave a pitch on an answering
- machine.
-
- -wat-
- --
- --- "If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same
- work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at
- any level?" -- Dr. Warren Farrell
-